are tariffs a good idea?

MA6A wrote:

I don't remember that much from my economics classes but it leads to increased home (American) production at the cost of slightly higher prices.

WinstonSmith wrote:

Pepe Vitale wrote:

Wow I can't believe you don't know about the post WW2 global order.

Always wrong and never in doubt.

That's Harambe.

Globalism did not exist prior to Bretton Woods.

Harambe doesn't even know what century WW2 happened in let alone what its economic consequences were.

beautiful phone call wrote:

MA6A wrote:

I don't remember that much from my economics classes but it leads to increased home (American) production at the cost of slightly higher prices.

Coupled with abolition of the income tax, tarriffs will result in overall bigger federal coffers and less of a burden on current taxpayers.

Ppppppppp wrote:

Who takes anything he said seriously? Remember when he would be too busy to play golf and had a health care plan?

tariffs tend to screw everyone. Right now china can make electronics for $1 and the US grows some wheat for $1. We add tariffs and now we are making iPhones in the US for $2 and china is growing wheat for $2. Neither one of us is really winning in the world.

Tariffs have a place with things like dumping but normally they are just used to prop up inefficient producers. It is basically socialism with the government picking winners and losers. It rarely ends well.

typical con wrote:

beautiful phone call wrote:

Coupled with abolition of the income tax, tarriffs will result in overall bigger federal coffers and less of a burden on current taxpayers.

What if you don't earn enough to pay any income tax? You get no tax relief and will just pay more at the stores. Tough times ahead if this goes through.

beautiful phone call wrote:

typical con wrote:

What if you don't earn enough to pay any income tax? You get no tax relief and will just pay more at the stores. Tough times ahead if this goes through.

You Democrats love freeloaders.

Everyone should pay their fair share.

typical con wrote:

beautiful phone call wrote:

You Democrats love freeloaders.

Everyone should pay their fair share.

They pretended introducing tariffs is about protecting working class jobs but it's really just to get working class people to pay more tax.

Their have been rebellions caused by things like this in the past, nowadays people gleefully vote for it 🙁

Harambe wrote:

WinstonSmith wrote:

Always wrong and never in doubt.

That's Harambe.

Globalism did not exist prior to Bretton Woods.

Harambe doesn't even know what century WW2 happened in let alone what its economic consequences were.

It appears that Trumpers now think that international trade was invented in the 1940s

typical con wrote:

beautiful phone call wrote:

You Democrats love freeloaders.

Everyone should pay their fair share.

They pretended introducing tariffs is about protecting working class jobs but it's really just to get working class people to pay more tax.

Their have been rebellions caused by things like this in the past, nowadays people gleefully vote for it 🙁

end wokeness wrote:

Link:www.wsj.com/opinion/tariffs-wont-bring...

WinstonSmith wrote:

You think Ford firing all of the Americans and building plants in Mexico to save money on labor costs is good for the working class?

WinstonSmith wrote:

typical con wrote:

They pretended introducing tariffs is about protecting working class jobs but it's really just to get working class people to pay more tax.

Their have been rebellions caused by things like this in the past, nowadays people gleefully vote for it 🙁

You think Ford firing all of the Americans and building plants in Mexico to save money on labor costs is good for the working class?

WinstonSmith wrote:

Harambe wrote:

It appears that Trumpers now think that international trade was invented in the 1940s

The smug leftist has no idea what globalism is.

How completely unsurprising.

WinstonSmith wrote:

typical con wrote:

They pretended introducing tariffs is about protecting working class jobs but it's really just to get working class people to pay more tax.

Their have been rebellions caused by things like this in the past, nowadays people gleefully vote for it 🙁

You think Ford firing all of the Americans and building plants in Mexico to save money on labor costs is good for the working class?